Listen, And Remember: Listen as Austin was interviewed in April of 2009, by “Patrick and Val,” a talk show duo in Vancouver, B.C., about President Obama’s then-surprise trip to visit U.S. troops in Iraq. Notice how the Canadian hosts openly admitted that they were gushing about Barack Obama, and suggested that the world had begun to like the United States again, all because of him. And then consider how, on the eve of another presidential election, the exuberance over this one man is gone – and the United States is as unpopular abroad as ever.